Showing posts with label incentives. Show all posts
Showing posts with label incentives. Show all posts
Saturday, November 9, 2024

Behavioral market design (in the JEP)

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 The Fall 2024  Journal of Economic Perspective s has three papers on behavioral market design: Symposium: Behavioral Incentive Compatibi...
Sunday, September 29, 2024

Gaming a bike sharing algorithm

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 Jacob Leshno points out this NYT story. He writes "The gist of it is that Citi bike pays to deliver bikes to stations with shortages,...
Sunday, June 9, 2024

Recent kidney transplant papers

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 Here are two new papers on kidney exchange that caught my eye, and one on incentivizing deceased donation by prioritizing registered donors...
Wednesday, May 22, 2024

Gaming the health care system; David Cutler's concerns

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 The eminent Harvard health economist   David Cutler is worried by, among other things, the takeover of many healthcare facilities by privat...
Friday, April 12, 2024

Gambling on sports, by and on athletes

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  Now that sports betting is legal, and apps allow people to bet on particular events within a game as it unfolds, there is concern that pla...
Tuesday, March 19, 2024

The Impact of prioritization on kidney and liver allocation in Israel

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      Israel's  Organ Transplantation Law grants some priority on waiting lists for transplants to candidates who are first-degree relat...
Tuesday, February 13, 2024

Incentives to take tests and get vaccinated

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  As the pandemic phase of Covid-19 recedes, we can reflect on what we've learned about demand for tests and for vaccines.   Here's ...
Monday, January 22, 2024

Reporting and misreporting from Organ Procurement Organizations (OPOs)

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 Because there are shortages of organs for transplant, it is important to measure how successful Organ Procurement Organizations (OPOs) are ...
Friday, January 19, 2024

Incentives and mis-incentives in science (Freakonomics part II)

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  Freakonomics has a second post on fraud in science, and you can listen or read the transcript here: Can Academic Fraud Be Stopped? Two quo...
Thursday, January 18, 2024

It's a dominant strategy for deferred acceptance proposers to state true preferences in the marriage problem: simple proof

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This post is not entirely self-contained, it is in some sense a continuation of and addition to my talk last year at the Simons Institute, w...
Sunday, January 7, 2024

Market Design for Surface Water , by Ferguson and Milgrom

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 The potential market for surface water is a market in which any transfer of rights involves externalities affecting the water consumption o...
Tuesday, September 19, 2023

Organ transplantation in China: in transition--and controversy about paying funeral costs

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  I recently spoke at the CAST transplant conference in Hong Kong (see picture ), and the underlying theme of my talk, and of many talks the...
Thursday, September 7, 2023

Navigating NYC school choice: advice for families

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  Each year a new cohort of families has to navigate school choice in New York City.  The city offers lots of resources for gathering inform...
Tuesday, July 25, 2023

Incentives in matching markets: Counting and comparing manipulating agents by Bonkoungou and Nesterov

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 Here's a paper that caught my eye in the current issue of Theoretical Economics, Volume 18, Issue 3 (July 2023) Incentives in matching...
Sunday, April 30, 2023

Statement of Policy Principles and Solutions: Living Organ Donation, from the American Association of Kidney Patients (AAKP), the American Society of Transplant Surgeons (ASTS), and the American Society of Transplantation (AST)

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  Here's a joint statement about living-donor kidney transplantation from the American Association of Kidney Patients (AAKP), the Americ...
Tuesday, January 24, 2023

"Financial incentives for vaccination do not have negative unintended consequences," in Nature

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  Here's a recent article in Nature whose title effectively summarizes its conclusions, and brings some evidence from RCTs to bear on th...
Saturday, November 12, 2022

Deceased donor organ discards on weekends, in the the Annals of Transplantation

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 Hospital resources and physician incentives can be stressed on weekends, and there is historical evidence that organ discards are higher on...
Monday, October 24, 2022

Informationally Simple Incentives by Simon Gleyze and Agathe Pernoud

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  Agathe Pernoud  is on the Economics job market from Stanford this year, and is interested in the properties of information in environments...
Monday, October 3, 2022

Choosing (as if) from a menu (by Gonczarowski, Heffetz and Thomas; and by Bó, and Hakimov)

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What makes serial dictatorship so obviously strategy proof is that it gives each participant the opportunity to choose from a menu, and get ...
Monday, May 9, 2022

School choice with outside options , by Akbarpour, Kapor, Neilson, van Dijk, and Zimmerman in J.Pub.E.

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 One of the differences between market design and the theoretical mechanism design literature is that in mechanism design, the theorist crea...